With the UN declaring mass surveillance a violation of human rights, the proper thing for the world‘s biggest intelligence agencies — who regularly engage in mass surveillance — to do, might be to cut back on the practice and go back to targeted surveillance projects that most people find acceptable. Or, you know, they can do what the outgoing head of the GCHQ (the UK‘s equivalent of the NSA), Sir Iain Lobban, did and just redefine the English language. That‘s easier.